Waters and Spark Holland Enter Co-marketing Agreement for High Volume Labs

Waters Corporation (Milford, MA, USA) and Spark Holland (Emmen, The Netherlands), have entered into a co-marketing agreement to promote an integrated solution for high volume clinical laboratories. These integrated systems are comprised of Waters' mass spectrometers and Spark Holland's symbiosis on-line solid phase extraction (SPE) system under the control of Waters MassLynx mass spectrometry data acquisition, processing, and reporting software.

With this integrated system high-volume labs can now automate sample processing, analysis, and data reduction. This will enable high volume clinical and forensic laboratories worldwide to analyze samples faster, increase throughput, and lower costs.

We are pleased to enter into this co-marketing agreement with Spark Holland. We believe that the combination of on-line SPE using Waters Oasis sorbents together with our mass spectrometers is truly enabling for customers in high-throughput environments for automating and integrating sample preparation, separation, and detection, said Michael Yelle, senior director of clinical operations at Waters corporation.

"We believe that the power of the Waters mass spectrometers combined with the Symbiosis front-end automation--all controlled from a single software package--is a big step towards a fully integrated analyzer for the clinical market. Better workflow with less manual handling should improve throughput and quality of the analysis. We are excited about our co-marketing arrangement with Waters and believe it can deliver great benefits for our joint customers,” said Rob Castien, president of Spark Holland.

Waters Clinical Business Operations group is dedicated to the adoption of liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) in the clinical market worldwide. Waters customers are supported by a scientific team in the United Kingdom and dedicated clinical support staff in the United States and Europe.

Spark pioneered solid phase extraction with on-line elution into high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and LC-MS systems in the 1980s, followed by its introduction to the market in the early 1990s. Since, the company has evolved to a world-class provider of innovative sample introduction, extraction, and separation technology for analytical systems such as HPLC, MS, gas chromatography (GC), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).

Waters Corporation holds worldwide leading positions in three complementary analytical technologies--liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis.


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